Manipulates and accesses URI strings From the README: This package contains the URI.pm module with friends. The module implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) references as specified in RFC 2396. URI objects can be used to access and manipulate the various components that make up these strings. There are also methods to combine URIs in various ways. The URI class replace the URI::URL class that used to be distributed with libwww-perl. This package contains an emulation of the old URI::URL interface. The emulated URI::URL implement both the old and the new interface.